For Africa’s tech founders, the exit door is still open, but it no longer leads where many once expected. Between 2023 and 2025, the continent recorded more than 100 startup exits, roughly half through mergers and acquisitions, while public listings barely featured, leaving trade sales as the most reliable route to liquidity.  The shift is

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Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition , we featured three game-changing startups pioneering HRTech, e-commerce, and mobility. Expect the next dispatch on January 9, 2026. This week, we explore five African startups in the e-commerce, data management, legal, and artificial intelligence sectors and why they

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), will introduce a new consumer protection framework that mandates near-instant refunds for failed airtime and data transactions, from March 1, 2026. Under the proposed rules, subscribers who are debited without receiving value will be entitled to a refund within 30 seconds

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Africa’s venture capital story has always been geographically narrow. The ‘Big Four’—Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt—absorbed the majority of capital, talent and attention. In 2024, those four markets captured 67% of all African venture funding, according to global venture firm Partech. Yet concentration is no longer producing comfort. Currency volatility, regulatory unpredictability, and declining

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Africa’s relationship with technology underwent a structural shift in 2025. After decades as a net consumer of imported devices, networks and energy systems, the continent is increasingly treating hardware manufacturing as strategic infrastructure rather than an industrial afterthought. What began as scattered experiments in phone assembly and solar panels is now converging with a much